Presentation
Quantum-Resistant Security: PQC Readiness and Research Challenges
Description"What is your PQC Readiness" - in this talk, we will explore this topic, why is it important, and how to address this question for any enterprise, and for the entire digital world. Quantum computing capabilities are evolving fast and are getting more powerful. With that several classical cryptography protocols such as RSA are poised to be broken in the next few years. NIST has already announced four cryptography protocols as part of the first batch of post-quantum cryptography standards (in August '24). However, implementation and adoption of quantum-resistant cryptography is a hard problem given the complexities of today's internet and computing stack. Our research work has led to development of algorithms and a system - Quartz (Quantum Risk and Threat Analyzer) for observability for quantum vulnerabilities for cryptography suites, where they are used, and analyzing their risks. We developed the concept of cryptography supply chain, and cryptography bill of materials (CBOM). In this talk, we will delve into the following subtopics: (1) Analyze the problem of PQC-readiness of an enterprise, of an individual entity and of the digital world at scale. (2) present Quartz - a state of the art system to analyze and measure the quantum vulnerabilities and associated risks across the computing stack, (3) present our latest analysis of deployment and usage of PQC, and whether these implementations are ready to be adopted in the real-world. (4) A demo of our Quartz system.
Event Type
Research Special Session
TimeWednesday, June 2511:30am - 12:00pm PDT
Location3010, Level 3
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